Natalia Kazaryan, Pianist

Pianist Natalia Kazaryan is an acclaimed pianist, curator, educator, and arts leader, known for bringing fresh perspectives to the classical concert experience.

Praised by The New York Sun for her “prodigious ability,” Kazaryan has appeared as soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra, Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, Harrisburg Symphony, Alexandria Symphony, and other ensembles. Her performance of Florence Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement was featured on WETA Classical’s Front Row Washington. She has also appeared on major recital series including the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, Portland Piano International, the Phillips Collection, and numerous international venues.

As founder and artistic director of Counterpoint Concerts, Kazaryan is expanding the concert experience through programs that place canonical works in dialogue with contemporary composers, visual media, and unexpected performance spaces. Recent projects include Guardian of the Night, an immersive Ravel program at Dupont Underground featuring real-time generative visuals to accompany Gaspard de la nuit, and Bach to the Future, an all-Bach program with musicians of the National Symphony Orchestra incorporating period instruments, modern piano, electronics, and multimedia design.

Kazaryan holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School and completed doctoral studies at the University of Michigan under Logan Skelton. She studied at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid with Dmitri Bashkirov, where she received the Sobresaliente Award for outstanding work and excellence. A Fulbright Scholar in Paris, she continued studies with Michel Béroff. Kazaryan serves as Assistant Professor of Piano and Piano Area Coordinator at Howard University.

Natalia Kazaryan is a passionate champion of works by female composers and serves on the International Alliance for Women in Music board. She is a member of the piano faculty at Howard University.